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Watch panel and discussion about how we are connected with War at Home and Abroad with Graduate Center professors David Harvey and Ashley Dawson, students Rasha Arabi and Faris Al-Ahmad Zwiran, and Ali Issa of the War Resisters League and Jadaliyya.

Afiya Zia and Gayatri Spivak discuss the backlash against the liberal and/or secular women’s movement as betrayers of the Muslim (male) cause. They also discuss the misguided prescription of those academic and developmental projects that advocate the instrumentalisation of Islam as an appropriate and ‘authentic’ approach in Muslim contexts. Moderated by Sadia Abbas. [read more»]

Watch video from the report on the financialization of housing and its impact on the right to adequate housing, by Raquel Rolnik, UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. The video also contains a tribute to Neil Smith, the founding director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and Graduate Center Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography. [read more»]